Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 03:34:05 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Secondary DNS Transfers Message-ID: <267430000.998879645@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <002901c12e6b$c5f79500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <002901c12e6b$c5f79500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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--On Sunday, August 26, 2001 13:14:56 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > Whatever it is, if your DNS resolution cannot survive with the primary > nameserver offline, then you got a REAL problem. If your afraid of > stopping the primary nameserver for a few days because you don't trust > the secondary, then you've missed the entire point of having primary and > secondary nameservers, I'm afraid. I think you've missed the point. You *are* afraid to switch the master nameserver off because you *don't* trust the slave and the whole point of the exercise is to find out if the slave really is working or not. Switching off the master in order to see if the slave is working is dumb because if it turns out that the slave isn't working then you have no DNS. Obviously if everything is working then you should be able to switch the master off, but the purpose of this exercise is to safely determine that everything's working in the first place. You're approach is like suggesting that you wipe your disk and try to restore from your backup in order to prove that your backups are working properly. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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